Switch Between the BYOL and the PAYG Licenses

There is no migration path between the BYOL and PAYG licensing options. If you have already deployed and configured a VM-Series firewall with the PAYG or BYOL option in AWS or Azure, and now want to switch to the other option, use the following instructions to save and export the configuration on your existing firewall, deploy a new firewall, and then restore the configuration on the new firewall.

Switch Between the PAYG License and the BYOL License

Save a backup of the current configuration file and store it to an external server.

On the newly deployed firewall, restore the configuration that you exported.

Access the web interface of the newly deployed firewall.
Select
Device > Setup > Operations, click
Import named configuration snapshot, Browse to the configuration file on the external host, and click
OK.
Click
Load named configuration snapshot, select the
Name
of the configuration file you just imported, and click
OK.
Click
Commit
to overwrite the running configuration with the snapshot you just imported.
Verify that the configuration on the new firewall matches the firewall that you are replacing, before you delete the firewall or deactivate the licenses on the replaced firewall.